LINKDING

summary: or: A piece of Ancient technology requires some honesty to grant access to its workings; Rodney and Jeannie find themselves telling each other a few unspoken truths. ➤ sga gen fic about Rodney and Jeannie's sibling relationship ➤ in order to access the Ancients' science thingy they need to tell each other truths....enough to make the door-opening device accept them ➤ some petty things get said but also, in the end, some pretty major acknowledgements ➤ I love this sibling pair and it's always a delight to see a fic focusing on their relationship with each other! ➤ the balance of their conversation and truth-telling and how it shifts over time is so well done ➤ 4k words in length

<blockquote>Miko remembered all of it for everyone, even if she didn't tell them so. </blockquote> ➤ Miko has to kill flawed copies of Rodney that come through the gate on every loop of time

<blockquote>“Teyla.” Her name sounds more like a curse than anything else, and she supposes she deserves that, given what he’s seen her do over the years.</blockquote> ➤ a snapshot of one moment far into Teyla's experience of a timeloop. dark.

<blockquote>John didn't remember the crash. He knew he lay sprawled on the jumper's deck, that every part of his body hurt, and that he could hear the others shouting. Teyla, Rodney, Dr. Simpson. Memory flooded back abruptly and he managed to open his eyes. No, it wasn't a nightmare.</blockquote> ➤ I'm kind of disappointed that this isn't a fusion where John is Raksura, but it's a fun fic nonetheless

<blockquote>Their voices filter through the sedative, an anxious duet. Kate: "The word the Ancient used for Colonel Sheppard was 'shell.' Now, I've never treated him, but I've observed him for five years, and I've always wondered." Rodney: "Wondered what?" Kate: "Didn't he ever seem a little…glib to you? He struck me as having a very weakly integrated personality, composed of traits that would normally be considered contradictory. He was a lot of different things to a lot of different people."</blockquote> ➤ I love that this is both straight-up good sga fic but ALSO amazing meta on the subject of the characterization of John Sheppard ➤ Also at https://archiveofourown.org/works/337878 under the author name Sarah T

<blockquote>It turned out they'd been having fun on M3Y-828 for nearly two days, and Zelenka hadn't been seen since before they'd left. Nobody else had used the gate, none of the jumpers were missing, and scanning the city showed no life signs unaccounted for. He wasn't answering any radio or city-wide hails, and search teams hadn't found him in the occupied sections of the city. "That's ridiculous," Rodney snapped. "I saw him right before we left. Obviously you've made a mistake. He's asleep under a console somewhere."</blockquote>

<blockquote>John and Rodney go looking for a former Atlantis scientist with annoyingly perfect hair, and end up in the most scientifically interesting community in the US. Now the question is, will they ever be able to leave...</blockquote>

<blockquote>A jumper crash separates the team on a wilderness planet, and they aren't alone. Late season five, somewhere before "Brainstorm"; mostly gen with background references to past Ronon/Keller, pre-Rodney/Keller, implied Teyla/Kanaan.</blockquote>

<blockquote>The Stargates' universal translation effect can sometimes make secret communication in enemy territory difficult. Luckily, Rodney has a plan.</blockquote> ➤and that plan is to talk entirely in cultural references where the meaning doesn't translate with the words. SO GREAT even if I don't understand three quarters of what they're saying.

<blockquote>This was a pinch-hit for the Multiverse crossover ficathon, and the request was 'Rodney McKay & the Doctor'. Which I had fun with, even if I did give myself a headache hammering out the two separate-but-interweaving chronological threads :)</blockquote> ➤ auuuugh oh I love this, and I love how as Rodney's timeline progresses he gets more stable and happy, whereas the last we see of the Doctor is him in the middle of the Time War and OUCH. ➤ also at https://archiveofourown.org/works/522052

<blockquote>So in last week's Databurst, shusu (who I might be sortakinda secretly stalking) wrote the following about trinityofone's Misery to Man: "This is a triumph of sprogfic, and a totally incredible story, missing being the Pick of the Week by that much. Why so awesome? Because there is no conceivable way to give it a happy ending. NONE. All of fandom is trying to disprove that theorem, but as of right now, it's the Millennium Prize of SGA fanon." Now, me being me, and determined that there ain't no pairing high enough (except for McBeck, which makes me want to puke), ain't no sadness low enough, ain't no cliche wide enough to keep me from at least giving it a go, babe, have decided to prove her wrong. A happy ending for Misery?</blockquote> from skaredykat's rec on fancake: <blockquote>The premise: In trinityofone's Misery to Man, Rodney's about to accidentally die on an alien planet when the aliens kindly offer John the option of mpreg-reincarnating him. John says yes, wee!Rodney has no memories that his father used to be his lover. In the fic I'm reccing here, La Dulce Espera, a sequel to Misery to Man, John has a hard time dealing with this; Teyla steps in. Interesting but somewhat sad, until the end.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Rodney McKay /really/ hates small towns.</blockquote>

<blockquote>The expedition finds surprising signs of a long-missing race, but a greater surprise lies in store.</blockquote> ➤ what happened to the Furlings? Here is an EXCELLENT ANSWER. Rodney and Jeannie are furling children!

<blockquote>He just wants to drum.</blockquote> ➤ the band au ➤ http://archiveofourown.org/works/108442

➤ the last in the series about Mer'deth the goa'uld and John his host. ➤ In which Lorne ends up becoming Mer'deth's First Prime to save Earth. ➤ (contains links to the earlier stories)

<blockquote>In Pegasus, there can be considerably more than one.</blockquote> ➤ YESYESYES.

<blockquote>Everyone says the same thing when they see the TARDIS for the first time. Well. Ish.</blockquote>

➤ Methos in Atlantis!

➤ I, uh, don't remember...but it was good

➤ Sequel to Sequelae (by diff author). In which Rodney and John return to Pegasus to fix John's relapes of Iratus-bug-ness, and Teyla's willing to give up a lot to save him. Sequelae is at https://sga-flashfic.livejournal.com/712183.html 26k words by spike21

➤ does what it says on the tin!

➤ Cool AU to do with element-working, with amazing worldbuilding and amazing character relationships.

➤ Rodney and Teyla are stranded and captured, with Ronon and John in a wraith buffer that's losing power.

➤ in which Rod gets turned into a cat, and muses about our universe's Atlantis personnel.

➤ the Robot!Rodney story! yay!

➤ deals with memory. John loses ALL his memories to an ancient device (coma-causing!) and Rodney has to carefully collect them all from city-wide terminals.

➤ ahahaha so awesome. Rodney's been dealing with a lowlevel allergic reaction ALL HIS LIFE and hence his irritable personality!

➤ early season one -- John actually took quite a while to warm up to McKay, especially after his lacklustre performance in his first mission ever in 38 Minutes

➤ Rodney getting back in touch with music, and Teyla being awesome

➤ post-series on earth, still friends